Between speed and safeguards : evaluating equity in the EU's carbon capture and storage policy landscape
(2025) In Carbon Management 16(1).- Abstract
As part of the Net-Zero Industry Act and Industrial Carbon Management Strategy, the European Union (EU) has positioned carbon capture and storage (CCS) as a critical decarbonization technology. These developments build on the European Green Deal's (EGD) integrated approach to climate policy, which seeks to balance decarbonization with broader societal goals. Previous research confirms CCS's technical feasibility but reveals the potential to exacerbate fossil fuel-era inequities. This study took a two-step approach to systematically analyze how EU policy addresses equity challenges across CCS's full value chain. First, a systematic literature review was conducted to identify the main equity concerns with CCS deployment: health risks,... (More)
As part of the Net-Zero Industry Act and Industrial Carbon Management Strategy, the European Union (EU) has positioned carbon capture and storage (CCS) as a critical decarbonization technology. These developments build on the European Green Deal's (EGD) integrated approach to climate policy, which seeks to balance decarbonization with broader societal goals. Previous research confirms CCS's technical feasibility but reveals the potential to exacerbate fossil fuel-era inequities. This study took a two-step approach to systematically analyze how EU policy addresses equity challenges across CCS's full value chain. First, a systematic literature review was conducted to identify the main equity concerns with CCS deployment: health risks, storage access inequity, and socioeconomic equity. Second, the EU's CCS policy framework was thematically analyzed in relation to these three equity concerns to explore whether and to what extent they are addressed by and in policy. The findings reveal tensions between the EU's market-oriented CCS approach and its normative equity commitments.
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- Lefstad, Lina LU
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- 2025
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- published
- subject
- keywords
- carbon capture and storage (CCS), climate change mitigation, Equity, EU policy
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- Carbon Management
- volume
- 16
- issue
- 1
- article number
- 2564723
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- Taylor & Francis
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- scopus:105018618093
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- 1758-3004
- DOI
- 10.1080/17583004.2025.2564723
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- English
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- yes
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- Publisher Copyright: © 2025 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
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